HAVANA, March 29 (Juan Carlos Linares, Cuba Voz) - The government is making an already difficult survival harder for small, self-employed businesses through fines, confiscations and enforced closings.

A source at the National Office of Tax Administration said confidentially that the measures are due to the wish on the part of the State of reducing to the minimum private services and to keep in check any private initiative that might constitute a risk to the ideological control of the socialist State.

The same source said that a new project is under study since the beginning of the year to implement industrial cooperatives in which the State would provide infrastructure private parties would provide the entrepreneurship.

Experts estimate that the campaign is related to the lack of efficiency in State enterprises, which are incapable of competing even with small family businesses.

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